Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

Which came first — the observer or the particle?

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.

We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.